The texts in the corpus are samples of 2000 words or less from various sources:
literary texts from the University of Oxford Text Archive and scanned from books; newspaper texts
scanned from printed newspapers and online sources; biography texts scanned from printed
books. The original images of scanned data are no longer available.

Notes

A corpus of approximately 260,000 words of modern British narrative
texts representing three text types (fiction, newpapers, biography) with detailed
annotation for all forms of speech, thought and writing presentation which occur in the
corpus.